Notice Information
Notice Title
Business Travel Services
Notice Description
Business travel solutions for First Rail, including Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway, TransPennine Express and First Bus. The service provision will provide best value whilst managing travel risk, supporting traveller well-being and maximising business travel return on investment. The Travel Management Company will support our requirements for booking hotels, rail travel, air travel, venues and short-term car hire across our multiple businesses throughout the UK.
Lot Information
Lot 1
First Rail and First Bus are seeking to contract with one supplier to manage the Group's Business Travel Requirements covering hotels, rail travel, air travel, venues/conferences and short-term car hire. We are seeking proposals that will provide the overall best value whilst delivering the following requirements: - *a booking tool that is user friendly and reliable with the ability to embed our policy requirements and internal approvals. *a flexible contract structure that will fulfil each Divisions (Rail & Bus) requirements. *the option of 24 hour support for the Divisions that require this. *a pricing structure to ensure the supplier provides the best rates using benchmarking. *account management support to react to our changing demands. *a wide enough range of hotels which meet our requirements and hotel rate price caps across the UK. The procurement process will include both First Rail and First Bus requirements and will be conducted in accordance with the Utility Contract Regulations 2016. Following the formal call for competition (contract notice) we will adopt the Negotiated Procedure (ITN) initially shortlisting suppliers through a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) process.
Renewal: Option to extend the contract for a period of up to 24 months. NB. The estimated contract value specified is for the initial 3 year term.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-037214
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027575-2022
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79997000 - Business travel services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £13,500,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £13,500,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 30 Sep 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 7 Nov 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- FIRST GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- W2 1AF
- Post Town
- West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- Hyde Park
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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